Still More Shit that Pisses Me Off

By Tittle

Pregnant men, paying stay-at-home moms, advertising, income tax deductions, people skills, boy books, speech codes, porn, god, testicular battery and tranquilizer guns, the Academy Awards, intelligent design and evolution...

Philosophy with an attitude. Because the unexamined life is dangerous.

"Tittle's

• Language: English
• Publisher: Magenta
• Release date: Nov 7, 2012
• ISBN: 9781926891323

Tittle

In addition to the four volumes of Shit that Pisses Me Off, Peg Tittle has written Sexist Shit that Pisses Me Off and Just Think About It, as well as Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason (Routledge), Should Parents Be Licensed? Debating the Issues (Prometheus), What If? Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy (Longman), and Ethical Issues in Business: Inquiries, Cases, and Readings (Broadview). She was a columnist for the Ethics and Emerging Technologies website for a year (her "TransGendered Courage" received 35,000 hits, making it #3 of the year, and her "Ethics without Philosophers" received 34,000 hits, making it #5 of the year), The Philosopher Magazine's online philosophy café for eight years, and Philosophy Now for two years. She is also the author of several novels: Gender Fraud: a fiction, Impact, It Wasn't Enough, What Happened to Tom (on Goodreads' list of Fiction Books That Opened Your Eyes To A Social Or Political Issue), and Exile. She has received over twenty Ontario Arts Council grants. pegtittle.com

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STILL MORE SHIT THAT PISSES ME OFF

by

Peg Tittle

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Still More Shit that Pisses Me Off

Copyright 2012 by Peg Tittle

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Cover design by Donna Casey based on a concept by Peg Tittle

Thanks to Ben for the series title

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Acknowledgements

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Also by Peg Tittle

More Shit that Pisses Me Off

Shit that Pisses Me Off

Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason

What If…Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy

Should Parents be Licensed? Debating the Issues

Ethical Issues in Business—Inquiries, Cases, and Readings

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Contents

1. To Wail Like a Brat—and Advertise

2. Income Tax Deductions: Financial Reward for Dependence and Replication

3. Entertain me. Hurt him.

4. Paying Stay-at-Home Moms

5. No People Skills. And proud of it.

6. What’s so funny about a man getting pregnant?

7. Poor Little Kids

8. Dolly—what’s in a name.

9. A Gold Watch

10. Porn’s Harmless and Pigs Fly

11. God: The Quintessential Dead-Beat Dad

12. Boy Books

13. The Part-time Ghetto

14. The Gender of Business

15. Better than Speech Codes

16. Men’s Precision Teams

17. Dr. Frankenstein, meet Dr. Spock

18. Testicular Battery and Tranquilizer Guns (what the world needs now is)

19. Comedown

20. The Academy Awards: Separate and Not Equal

21. Transgendered Courage

22. Population Growth (i.e, rape)

23. In Praise of AIDS

24. Politics in Government: The Problem with Representation

25. Intelligent Design vs. Evolution

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To Wail like a Brat—and Advertise

On what basis do ‘you’ claim the right to publicize your desire for money—at my expense? You use forests full of trees for unsolicited mailouts, you produce and then dump tons of nonbiodegradable plastic for oversized packaging, you destroy beautiful landscapes with your signs, and you intrude on my consciousness with your insistent voice—all because you want me to buy your product or service so you can make some money.

Listings in directories—by category of product, service, and so on—should be free of charge; in fact, they are, for many online directories. When we want to purchase something, we’ll find you in the directory. Any